a stroll down actor memory lane

[tielan]

Watching S.W.A.T is so...weird and flashbacky.

Samuel L Jackson, sure. But Jeremy Renner, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, etc...

Also, pagers, colour printers, manually executed computer searches (instead of automatic facial recognition), and even the 'recording' stuff is so very grainy compared with even our phone cameras.

Watching that and being caught watching it by B2 prompted a rather hilarious 'blast to the past' where we looked up Renner as the vampire Penn in Angel (with a much younger David Boreanaz), and then skipped across to Michael Weatherly as Logan in Dark Angel compared with him now in Bull, which then turned towards Jensen Ackles in Dark Angel vs him now in Supernatural...

Ah, memory lane.

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[rose_griffes]

I haven't seen that movie, but I did do the whole "Wait, that's Jeremy Renner?" moment after looking up his list of roles and realizing he'd been on Angel. (He was charismatic as Penn, and I was bummed that he wasn't going to come back. Well, barring any kind of weird resurrection, which could certainly have happened on that show.)

[tielan]

I remembered him from Angel when I saw him in S.W.A.T but it was funny to first seem him as Hawkeye in Thor and be all "hang on, I know that guy!"